Josh Sherman
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJosh Sherman is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 18 years of experience building and scaling web applications from the ground up, particularly in startup environments. Based in Austin, he has led engineering at Mailshake and created multiple developer-facing products including HolidayAPI and the popular VPS Showdown blog turned site. Josh combines hands-on backend chops—evidenced by contributions to Redis analysis tooling—with product-first instincts that accelerate ideas to market. He’s launched and exited companies, led teams from single-digit startups to growth-stage orgs, and consistently focuses on practical, performance-oriented architecture. Outside of work he publishes widely-read technical content and even plays in a band, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and creative curiosity.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
IB Program, IB Program at Hillsborough High SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Leto High School
English
Github Skills (7)
command-line-interface10
python10
redis10
command-line10
cli10
data-analysis9
memory-profiling8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sripathikrishnan/redis-rdb-tools
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Parse Redis dump.rdb files, Analyze Memory, and Export Data to JSON
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of a Redis data analysis tool. Their work involved adding new features, such as filtering keys by size and the top N largest keys, to the command-line interface. They fixed bugs related to argument handling and data processing, along with refactoring and code cleanup. These modifications improved the tool's ability to analyze and report on memory usage within Redis dump files.
to-jsonmemorydata-managementredisexport
holidayapi/holidayapi-node
Aug 2016 - Apr 2022
Official Node.js library for Holiday API
Contributions:15 releases, 27 commits, 44 PRs in 5 years 8 months
apijs-librarynode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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